GREEN CORMORANT. 



CEESTED COEMOEANT. SKAET. SCAEF. CEESTED SCAEF. 



SHAG. SHAG COEHOEANT. 

 CEESTED SHAG. GEEEN SCOUT. COMMON 'SHAG. 



Pelecanus cristatus, PENNANT 



graculits, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Phulacrocorax cristatus, STEPHENS. FLKMING. SEI.BY. 



" JENYNS. GOULD. 



graculus, STEPHENS. FLEMING. 



Carlo cristatus, TiiMMINCK. 



Pelecanus A. Pelican. Cristatus Crested. 



THIS species is common on the northern shores of Europe, 

 those of Norway and Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Russia, Ice- 

 land, and the Ferroe Isles, and is not unfrequent about the 

 islands of the Mediterranean Corsica, Sardinia, and Cyprus; 

 also in Asia, both on the coasts and lakes of Siberia, and 

 Kamtschatka; so too in America. 



In the county of York a young bird of this kind was 

 shot by the keeper of Andrew Lawson, Esq., at RawclifF, 

 near Boroughbridge, towards the end of October, 1848. In 

 Oxfordshire one was obtained on the River Isis, near Oxford; 

 and in Berkshire one near Pangbourne, in September, 1794. 

 In July, 1851, a pair of these birds, in immature plumage, 

 were killed at Burton Joyce, on the River Trent, six miles 

 from Nottingham, as Mr. John Felkin, Junior, informed me, 

 and one of them was obligingly presented to me by that 

 gentleman. A specimen was shot near Oxford in the beginning 

 of 1851. 



In Surrey it has occurred near Godalming. It is thought 

 very rare at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, and the specimens which 

 occur are chiefly seen in the autumn, and mostly immature. 

 In Cornwall one, a young bird, was shot near Pennance 

 Point, Swanpool, Fahnouth, in 1854. One killed at the 



